About
http://web.archive.org/web/19990204033714/http://google.stanford.edu/about.html
and zomg look at the size of those hard drives!
http://web.archive.org/web/19990209043945/http://google.stanford.edu/googlehardware.html
"Backrub" was its predecessor:
http://www.google.com/about/company/history.html
http://web.archive.org/web/19971210065425/backrub.stanford.edu/backrub.html
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Sorry, many services are unavailable due to a local network faliure beyond our control. We are working to fix the problem and hope to be back up soon. 12/4/97
;D
O baby, think of all the ... text you could store!
As long as you can come up with a really smart search algorithm!
Oh, wait...
http://linux.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2067&cid=1595420
IIRC Wired had a special issue on the 10th9th anniversary of The Goog
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2007/09/dayintech_0907